Word: chief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...admirers was pressed around Photographer Launois. Suddenly the door was pulled open, and an old man, shouting fiercely, ordered him to take down his equipment. "He was gesturing wildly," reported Launois, "and barking in the old samurai style which I had only heard in the movies before." The village chief tried to convince the old man that Launois' motives were dignified, but he had no success. Finally, when the bathers became frightened by the commotion and departed for home, the old man himself undressed and slid into the bath, announcing scornfully that he would "rather...
Unfortunately, the chief strength coming up from the freshmen lies in weights--130 and 137, particularly--where the varsity is already fairly well set. No one is going to beat out Watkins, who was 6-4-1 this year, at 137, but either Nate Goodhue or George Doub may win 130 from Kludt, and freshman Bill Smith or sophomore Andy Petite--who didn't wrestle this year--could take 137 from Estabrook...
...chief executive reported to the nation by radio and television on the Berlin crisis. He took the expected stand that the United States is not abandoning any rights or deserting a free people but still is ready to negotiate differences...
Since he believes that musicians develop sharp business brains through constant bargaining with orchestra leaders, managers, recording companies, etc., Lieberson has put musicians in charge of his chief divisions. He hired Mitch Miller to run the popular-record division "despite the whoopdedoo because he was an oboe player and wore a beard." He gets along famously with artists ("I like creative people"), has lured many of them to Columbia, partly because, as Richard Rodgers says, "Goddard and his people make you feel a little more appreciated." Lieberson has a good ear for trends-though he can sometimes prove hard...
...maker of dry-cleaning equipment, last year sold $1,250,000 worth of ultrasonic cleaners for electric shavers, auto-engine parts, outboard motors, jewelry and the tips of ballpoint pens. One cleaner washes a cash register with 5,000 parts in 7½ minutes. Says Detrex's Chief Engineer T. J. Kearny: "Some day we'll be cleaning clothes with ultrasonic equipment...